12 follicles

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Tinky424 wrote:

Hi ladies,

Went in for my first monitoring US today and I have 12 follies. 8 on my right and 4 on my left. Only 5 on the left are over 7 (3 are over 10) and only 2 are over 7 on the left (1 is over 10). My E2 was 793. I'm not sure if those are good numbers or not... can anyone lend any insight? I go back on Sunday for another Ultrasound. After looking at the stats, I'm concerned about how many embryos we will actually be able to get, when I know the chances of all embies making it to a 5 day blast is slim, based on the odds for most people. A little of my history - I'm 34 and have sub normal AMH so I'm on an antagonist protocol. Just started the centrotide tonight. My DH has some sperm issues, so that's making me even less optimistic ??

I'm 35, hubby same age but also sperm problem, myself has borderline egg reserve, I have started ICSI last year, 2 fail cycle (on gonal F)with only 5 & 8 egg retrieved, the size of the follicle will keep growing and the clinic will monitor your blood, its the quality that matters.

The 3rd time I changed another clinic and started on menupor, which was the right drug for me, I got 17 egg retrieved, Fresh transfer on day 5 and got BFP, now 15 weeks, I have 3 frozen embies as well, I thinks it's a matter of

The right drug as well, unfortunately it seems to be related to doctor experience or trial of error, hope the info

We just went through this process few weeks back. My wify too had low to sub avg AMH and we had given up hopes. On the first US, we had 11 follicles. After 2nd US, only 6 were found to be good quality were retrieved and ICSIed. Off the 6 only 4 embryos went till day 5 blastocyst. And after the transfer, my wify got pregnant and she is 8weeks day 6. We had our 1st trimester US and could hear the heartbeat and all is well. I would say have patience and hope. Lord is there and we will pray for you. Best

Which day of stims was your first ultrasound? I have always had my first monitoring ultrasound on day 5 of stims and most follicles are below 10 at the time. Your E2 number looks good if it is day 5/6 of stims

With my latest IVF cycle, I had 9 follicles at my baseline ultrasound. On day 5, most follicles were below 10 mm and E2 was ~350. After 10 days of stims, we retrieved 11 eggs, 8 mature. 6 fertilized and 5 made it to blast. Only one of them was chromosomally normal though

My memory of follicle length isn't great (it's been 2 years) but I had '17' good follicles but they were only able to collect 3 eggs. Of those 3, 2 fertilized...one took. It was a long and grueling process but we have a beautiful baby boy now. I'm starting again and can only hope that we have a good result but when we did this 2 years ago everything seemed hopeless. It isn't! Good luck!! (Btw - we did the transfer on day 3 and they were 5 day blastocysts.)